Progress is woven, not layered
Within the 21st Century version of Capitalist “Democracies” that we all live under, especially for those of us born after 1980, so Millennials, Gen Z, etc. We’ve come to grow fond of Social Justice issues such as; LGBTQIA+ Rights, Abortion Rights, Women's Rights, Immigrant rights, etc. As much as I am also fervently in favour of all of these and much more, there is an issue with the way that we’ve gone about them, and I don’t think the issue lies with the issues themselves nor the policy changes that have been achieved in correcting them. The issue lies with what we think progress is, or how it's applied to societies. Within the “liberal” framework of things, progress is layered on top of society, and this comes with one big issue. These layered policies can be stripped away by another government, very, very, easily. And there is no buyers remorse button for many western countries, once a country has voted in a Government there is very little that can be actualised to course correct a government that’s trying to strip back these layers.
